On 12 Jan 2022 at 09:17a, deon pondered and said...
 
 de> If it helps, I build a deb of binkd to use in my fido hub container with
 de> perl support.
 de> 
 de> https://dev.leenooks.net/bbs/binkd/-/blob/master/.gitlab-deb-x86_64.yml
 de> 
 de> The instrutions to build that deb are above.

Thank you :) I have not looked at this but had run the process manually just now and remembered what I thought were the correct steps but then realised I'd left out the perl stuff. Al's last comment was the missing bit which I think may have just done the trick :)

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